Will it work to try to push a wifi signal over a large, rooftop TV antenna? (VHF/UFH/FM) If so, will I need any amplification if I try to use my D-Link DI-524 router to power it? What exactly kind of cables, connectors, amplifiers do I need?
Thanks for the help, sorry if this seems a little amateurish, but I cannot find the answers elsewhere.
B. Chociej
No, the frequencies are far apart. Antennas need to be resonant, especially for a transmitter. [Receiving, eh, well, close is often good enough.]
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm... alrighty. Guess I'll build/buy a good one and use the other for TV. Thanks!
I think the bigges band for the buck (or your time) is the biquad. I bought a metal pan at Walmart for the reflector.
For outdoor use, I'd be inclined to just buy a commercial antenna. You need to determine if you want to be omnidirectional or directional. Also, just who do you want to talk to?
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to make a directional connection over ~1.2 miles/1.9 km, non line-of-sight: at best case there are 4-5 trees, at worst case there are a couple houses in the way. haven't checked it perfectly, but the idea with the tv antenna was to be as cheap/easy as possible.
any ideas?
snipped-for-privacy@sushi.com wrote:
If you don't have line of sight, I wouldn't spend much time on the project.
There are two line of sight calculation programs on the net that are free. One is Splat, and the other is some careful use of Grass. I downloaded Splat last night and it didn't install properly on Suse
10.0. I didn't spend any time on it, so it may be some missing library, whatever, as the program has been around for some time.Both programs are covered in the O'Reilly map hacks book.
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